There are countries whose governments continue to fulfill their legal obligations despite being fully affected by a war situation.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) approved the Israeli government's budget for 2026.<\/a> It did so one day before the legal deadline. According to Israel's Fundamental Laws<\/strong> (the country does not have a formal constitution, as is the case in the United Kingdom), if the state budget is not approved by the Knesset before the end of March<\/strong>, or within 145 days after the formation of a new government, the Knesset is automatically dissolved and elections are called<\/a> within three months.<\/p>\n Furthermore, Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) has approved four state budgets amid the Russian invasion that began on February 24, 2022<\/strong>. The budgets can be consulted here: 2023<\/a>, 2024<\/a>, 2025<\/a> and 2026<\/a>. Article 96 of the Constitution of Ukraine<\/a> obliges the government to submit the state budgets to the Verkhovna Rada \"no later than September 15.\"<\/p>\n On the contrary, the government of Pedro S\u00e1nchez has failed to get Congress to approve a single one of its budgets in these three years of the legislature<\/strong> (which began in 2023). Recently, S\u00e1nchez decided to forgo presenting a new budget, using the war in Iran as an excuse<\/a> \u2014a war being fought more than 4,000 kilometers from Madrid and in which Spain is not involved in any way.<\/p>\n Article 134 of the Spanish Constitution establishes the government's constitutional duty to present its budget within a very specific timeframe<\/strong>. S\u00e1nchez has directly decided to disregard this constitutional duty and extend for a fourth year the 2023 budget<\/strong>, approved in November 2022<\/a>, as he lacks the necessary parliamentary majority to approve new public accounts.<\/p>\n El 6 de marzo de 2018, cuando estaba en la oposici\u00f3n, S\u00e1nchez dijo sobre el gobierno de Mariano Rajoy<\/a>: \"Si este Gobierno no aprueba los Presupuestos no tiene nada m\u00e1s que decir, salvo convocar elecciones<\/strong>\".<\/em> Ahora que es \u00e9l quien est\u00e1 en esta situaci\u00f3n, se niega a convocar elecciones por temor a perderlas, pues todas las encuestas menos las del CIS (controlado por el gobierno) pronostican una clara derrota del PSOE<\/a>, el partido socialista de S\u00e1nchez.<\/p>\n On March 6, 2018, when he was in the opposition, S\u00e1nchez said about Mariano Rajoy's government<\/a>: \"If this government doesn't approve the budget, it has nothing more to say except to call elections<\/strong>.\"<\/em> Now that he is in this situation, he refuses to call elections for fear of losing them, since all the polls except those of the CIS (controlled by the government) predict a clear defeat for the PSOE<\/a>, S\u00e1nchez's socialist party.<\/p>\n ---<\/p>\n
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